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Article: Asthma Uncontrolled in More Than 40 Percent of Adults With the Disease, New Landmark Survey Shows.
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- May 20, 2008
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Results from Phase One of Two-Phase Examination of U.S. Asthma Control
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. and TORONTO, May 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nearly half of adult Americans with asthma and more than a quarter of children with asthma who responded to a nationally representative survey do not have their disease well controlled, according to the Asthma USA survey, which was presented today at the International Conference of the American Thoracic Society meeting in Toronto.
The survey found that not well controlled asthma had significant medical consequences. Adults with uncontrolled asthma were more likely to require treatment with oral ...